[DOCS-3222] Comment on: "manual/tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes.txt" Created: 19/Apr/14  Updated: 11/Jan/17  Resolved: 27/Jul/16

Status: Closed
Project: Documentation
Component/s: manual
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: 01112017-cleanup

Type: Improvement Priority: Minor - P4
Reporter: Docs Collector User (Inactive) Assignee: Kay Kim (Inactive)
Resolution: Won't Fix Votes: 0
Labels: collector-298ba4e7, geo
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Environment:

Mongo Shell 2.6 Mac OS X 10.9

Location: http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes/
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repo: docs
source: tutorial/calculate-distances-using-spherical-geometry-with-2d-geospatial-indexes


Participants:
Days since reply: 7 years, 29 weeks ago

 Description   

The distance multiplier seems to be incorrectly documented (at least in the example). To get results in miles I had to use .000252323 as the distance multiplier which is (1/radius of earth in miles), as against the documented 3959 (actual radius of earth in miles = 3963.1676)
https://www.google.com/search?q=radius+of+earth+in+miles&oq=radius+of+earth+in+miles



 Comments   
Comment by Emily Hall [ 27/Jul/16 ]

Closed for housekeeping on 7/27/2016 by Emily Hall.
If you require additional support, please open a new ticket for prioritization.
Thanks,
Emily

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